Dickinson College

Football defeats Franklin and Marshall.  Dickinson loses the Guy Carleton Lee tennis trophy to a student at the Carlisle Indian School. 

List of fraternity pledges.  Phi Kappa Sigma holds annual Founders' Day ride.  Alpha Chi Rho holds annual straw ride.

Fraternity rushing ends.  Hon. Richmond Pearson Hobson speaks at Dickinson.  Students campaign for the national presidential election.

Dr. Prettyman ‘72 gives speech to YMCA on freedom at college. Pi Beta Phi pledges new members. College band elects officers; Frank Adams '18 is president. Kappa Sigma receives Wiener trophy for tennis. Alpha Chi Rho receives Kappa Sigma cup for track. Interfraternity council revises rushing rules.

Football defeats Navy in an unofficial game. Phi Kappa Sigma holds a reception for Professor W. H. Norcross. Freshman women hold reception for freshman men at Metzger Hall. List of incoming students.

The new academic year opens with a ceremony; Professor Leon C. Prince gives matriculation sermon. Wilbur H. Norcross ’07 and G. Lafayette Cram join faculty. Miss Helen Burns ’12 becomes college librarian. Sophomores win annual flag scrap. YMCA holds annual reception for new students. Metzger Hall is renovated and fitted with electric lights; has highest occupancy yet. The deceased Professor William Lambert Gooding is remembered. Conway Hall, South College, and Biddle Field are renovated.

Dickinsonian's annual Commencement issue. Highlights Commencement Week events and speakers.

The track team defeats Muhlenberg 73-53, and the baseball team loses to Ursinus at home, 4-3. The tennis team loses to Franklin & Marshall. Sports players from the different teams are profiled, including George C. Moose and Kenneth Bruce Vaughn. The track team is reviewed by their coach. Performances of the Glee Club and the Dramatic Club are scheduled. Kenneth Vaughn is also placed in the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame. Members of the sophomore class are initiated into the Skitch-A-Genee Sophomore Society.

Details of the 1917 Microcosm are published. Track team wins triangular meet against Bucknell and F&M.

Dickinson beats Lebanon Valley at baseball.  The track team has a meet and the tennis team wins a match against Franklin & Marshall.  A professor’s Ford automobile is stolen and driven through Bosler Hall.  The Freshman Oratorical Contest is held.  Phi Delta Theta holds a smoker.  Sigma Chi holds a dance.  Union Philosophical Society holds elections.